Runaway Girl on a Train to Philadelphia
In a December twilight on a snowbound railcar a young girl of about seventeen confesses she is running away to marry. Conductor Steve Patterson reassures her as they near Philadelphia, noting her fear of being alone and the hope that her friends or suitor will meet her.
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Lee Ashley
Daily Story Pub. Co
Steve Patterson
Steve
Tanner
Jin
Philadelphia
Mebhe
Mebbe
West Virginia
Tessie Bickford
Tylersville
Runaway Love in Quiet West Virginia Town
A milliner's assistant from Smithsburg confesses a romantic escape plan as Steve the conductor counsels caution. The pair consider the risks of city intrigue and parental worry, with Tessie Bickford’s shadow looming over the tale. The woman hurries toward home as the night weather tightens its grip.
Night in Cumberland boarding house echoes with longing
In Philadelphia Steve returns to his lodging as a girl laments a father’s affection and money. She laments a man’s stinginess yet praises his support while Steve contemplates a quiet future in Smithsburg or Maryland for his health.
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Steve
Philadelphia
Smithsburg
Maryland
Coronets for London Peers in King Edward’s Coronation
London jewelers busy crafting coronets for peers. Most avoid real gems, opting for gold lozenges and silver beads to avoid a constitutional fright. A first class coronet can fetch 73 dollars and 50 cents, with prices shaping the pageantry.
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London
Edward
New York Press
Uncle Tom's Cabin in the South revisited
Thomas Nelson Page argues in the Atlantic that Uncle Tom's Cabin misrepresents Southern life, inflaming northern prejudice while masking noble traits. He says the book's rhetoric accelerated slavery's end but stained the South's reputation and fostered crude stereotypes of Southerners as lazy and cruel.
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South
China
North
Thomas Nelson Page
The
Atlantic
McKinley of Colersine and the 1798 uprising
The McKinley family home Dernock House in County Antrim bears a 1765 initial. In 1798 arms were found, William McKinley a namesake of the future president was arrested, tried by court martial and shot in Coleraine market. He is buried in Dernock churchyard with a preserved headstone.
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McKinley
Colersine
Dernock House
County Antrim
Ireland
America
W. McK
Dernock
William McKinley
Coleraine
Dornock
London Morning Leader
A Grievous Offense Magistrate Interfering with an Officer
A fragment from Weslie's Weekly describing a magisterial scene. Roundsman Mc Carty is asked to state the exact act. He recounts an incident where the defendant allegedly obstructed an officer while a banana was forcibly diverted from him.
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Roundsman McCarty
Genevieve Hecker Wins National Women's Golf Title
Miss Genevieve Hecker of Noroton Connecticut has won the national women's golf championship and is regarded as the era's most remarkable young athlete. At nineteen she already has three years of prominence, with plans to extend her game to English and Scotch links before her wedding to George Jenkins later this year. She is the daughter of the late John V. Hecker, a flour mill millionaire.
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Genevieve Hecker
Noroton
Conn
America
George Jenkins
Miss Hecker
John V. Hecker
Last Hours of Great Men
A compact extract recounts final moments of Napolean Louis XIV Sidney Humboldt and Keats. It notes Napolean finding no terror in death, Louis XIV peaceful, Sidney preferring joy of dying, Mira beau desiring music and Humboldt praising rays, Hunter seeking a pen and Keats invoking flowers growing over him as a lasting beauty.
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Napoleon
Louis XIV
Sir Philip Sidney
Mirabeau
Humboldt
William Hunter
Keats
Labor Chief Is a Preacher Rev Harris Elected Vice President
Rev Sheldon A Harris of Dwight was elected vice president of the Illinois Federation of Labor at Joliet. Born in Pennsylvania February 2 1852 he moved to Illinois in 1859 and began as a wood machinist later becoming a salesman and then an evangelical missionary. He was ordained in 1880 located in Dwight in 1900 and serves as chaplain of the Sons of Veterans of Illinois while supporting labor unions and the poor. He quotes I believe in Christianity but not in churchianity.
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Sheldon A. Harris
Illinois Federation of Labor
Joliet
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Illinois
David Allen Harris
Merrill Horse
Mr. Harris
Evangelical
Dwight
The
Sons of Veterans of Illinoia
Connecticut Election Fuels Constitutional Reform Debates
The Connecticut constitutional amendment vote last Monday adopted two reforms the election of state officers by plurality and expansion of the state senate. The pivotal item was a call for a constitutional convention to address representation and end disparities between small towns and cities. Urban areas and large factory towns backed the convention, while turnout varied by region. Seventeen cities supported the convention by a decisive margin, contrasting with rural towns overall.
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Connecticut
Senate
Visionary Afro American Colony Plan on Long Island
A band of Afro American clergymen propose a color run colony on Long Island inviting all colored people to reside there with loans from a common treasury and life insurance as sole security. Whites would move off, land would be titled only to blacks, and a separate government would emerge, but legality and practicality fail amid constitutional hurdles and Long Island railroad interests.
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Long Island
General Treasury
United States
New York
America
Europe
How Diaz Is Guarded by Mexico’s Secret Service
Dr. Frank J. Toussaint describes Diaz’s guarded life after a northwestern Mexico trip and a visit to Mexico City. He notes Diaz’s constant secret service protection, searches for concealed weapons, and strict conduct rules for approaching the president, including improvised checks by detectives.
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Diaz
Frank J. Toussaint
Mexico
President Diaz
Yaqui
McKinley
Toussaint
Secret Service
Milwaukee Sentinel
No national sin of America warned by sermon on crisis
In Chicago sermon Rev R Keene Ryan argues against the idea that the US faces a rising national sin of personal crisis. He cites a table of annual crisis reports per 100000, showing the United States at 3.5, with many nations higher and a few lower, dismissing fear of America leading in crisis.
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Chicago
R. Keene Ryan
France
England
Germany
America
United States
Russia
Ireland
Spain
Saxony
Denmark
Schleswig-Holstein
Austria
Switzerland
German Empire
Italy
Netherlands
The Pope's Niece and Her Trousseau Colors
A pope's niece was nearing marriage and his distinguished relative insisted she wear only white blue or black gowns. The pope commented that gray and brown suit only old women and he dislikes them. He suggested white for purity blue for Mary and black for outdoor wear in Spain and Italy.
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Trousseau
Gizia
Spain
Italy
Training Boys to Me Gardena 6 London Council Program
The London County Council trains boys in practical gardening with support from the technical education board and Royal Botanic Society arrangements at Regent's Park. Scholarships aid boys leaving elementary schools to pursue a thorough course in gardening.
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London County Council
Technical Education Board of the Council
Royal Botanical Society of
Regent's Park
Stomach Bitters Praised by City Fire Crew
The new fire net adopted by a metropolitan fire department is praised as a life saver. Citizens and physicians commend Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for cures of dyspepsia indigestion biliousness nervousness and liver and kidney troubles. Many physicians prescribe it and recommend giving it a try.
Eastern Shore County Wealth From Potatoes Reveals Per Capita Share
Virginia and Colorado rivalry aside, an eastern shore county with about 13,000 people sold 530,000 barrels of Irish potatoes this year. At no profit of 1,000,000 dollars, the total suggests each resident would gain just over 75 dollars from a single crop if the money were distributed pro rata.
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Virginia
Colorado canal project praised for watertight plan
The Romero Irrigation Company is praised for supplying land, water rights, and a debt-free canal in Colorado. Surveyor Ulrich and canal builder Neel are cited as evidence of near perfection, while the public is invited to request a pamphlet for details and a potential call for skilled workers.
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Colorado
Romero Irrigation Company
Ulrich
Llomer Neel
Chas
Ielt
Boston Building
Denver
Allen's Foot-Ease Shoes Size Reducer Ad
Tactica Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It makes tighter new shoes easy. Relieves swollen hot sweaty aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores 25¢. Trial package sent by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy NY. Elsie-Mamma were you ever a child? Maimina-Certainly all humans were once children. Elsie-Really Well who took care of the babies then.
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Allen
Perne
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Elsie
Mamma
Maimina
Value of Gartlelat Ten Promoted as Liver Kidney Remedy
Brooklyn dispatch notes a claimed herb medicine Gartlelat Ten as a universal tonic for liver kidney stomach and bowel diseases and blood purification. The item also recalls a dialogue praising women's higher education and notes that eighty percent of Vassar graduates marry.
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Brooklyn
Earth
Clara
Dora
Vassar
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Endorsements
One hundred dollars reward for any cane of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co promise to honor obligations, with endorsements from West & Truax and Wailing Kinnan & Marvin. Cure taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free, price ten cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Wailding, Kinnan & Marvin
If marriage is a lottery Uncle Sum bars love letters
A columnist muses on marriage as chance and questions why a fictional Uncle Sum blocks love letters from the mail, framing the idea as a playful, perhaps mischievous comparison rather than a serious rule or policy.
Mass of Faded Ads and Quips From an Early Paper
A collage of ad lines and inane jokes: Potmam Face less Dyes boast bold druggist 10c per package. TeacheeJohnny asks cakes priced 20 cc 3 a dozen while 10 cents changes hands. Hamlin's Wizard Oil praised as a remedy that could double sales. a Massachusetts man plans a Niagara Falls plunge, rumored to pursue fame in a dramatic fall.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Other Teething Remedies
A jumble of vintage medical ads and quotations from 1908 including Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claimed to ease teething pain, Piso's Cure for Consumption advertised as a cough cold remedy, Garfield Headache Powders touted for nervous women, and a courtroom anecdote about a prisoner and a lawyer from Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
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